On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 11:01:59PM +0000, Martin Ling wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 05:01:52PM +0800, Matrix wrote: > > > > i suggest the function list_ports don't just return SP_OK if > > success instead of return the ports count is much better for vala's > > iterator syntax. > > I agree this would have been a good idea - quite aside from its > relevance for your Vala needs, it saves any client from needing to > iterate the returned pointer array to count the ports found. > > However, we have already had a public release with the function > returning only SR_OK or an error. We are very strict about following all > the rules when it comes to library API/ABI versioning, and we were very > careful with the design of the API to ensure that future versions could > remain fully backwards compatible. > > So I think unfortunately it is too late to change this. Uwe, do you have > any thoughts?
It's too late for the 0.1.x series which cannot have any API changes, but for the next major (API-changing) release it can be done, of course. Uwe. -- http://hermann-uwe.de | http://randomprojects.org | http://sigrok.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sigrok-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
